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Works fine for me. Hope the same for you guys.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/02/video-the-beach-boys-adele-bruce-springsteen-perform-at-2012-grammys/

thank you.

f*cking awesome

Thanks. To bad they only perform 1 song .

Here is what i saw and think about the performance:
- brian is singing Good Vibrations but i hear Jeffrey Foskett
- i see the complete BW backing band and only 2 of the ML & BJ band
- i could not hear Bruce, Al, David and Brian singing

Why not perform Do it again. That song is way better for the boys to show the audience that they still have it.
Good to see them all togheter but i wanna see only the boys.Why put on other artist to sing their songs??? Just my opinion.

Cant wait to see the boys live.

It is probably a grammy decision but it looks to me like they wanted the Beach Boys song to sound like the Beach Boys of the 60s which to me took away a lot of the enjoyment. Whether that will be the case on tour remains to be seen although with the musicians involved, that may be the case.

How does everyone feel about the guys singing their leads but the backing vocals sounding like the records, which really has been the case with brians band since he started touring?

Not that theres anything wrong with that! ;D

WTF

Link no longer works. Man those grammy folk are killjoys!

Try here.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/beach-boys-reunite-to-perform-good-vibrations-at-the-2012-grammy-awards/

How else should the backing vocals sound?

Like one lead singer and 4 original band members as backing vocalists with minimal volume bv's input from supporting musicians.

nice while it lasted.

Good Vibs was the obvious choice. It is arguably the greatest single of all-time.

Do It Again is not nearly as well-known, and although it's a great song it's kind of sad in my opinion. It was their first attempt at nostalgia... looking backward instead of moving forward. It's way more Love than Wilson in that regard.

Another ok link.

Watch them while you can!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN6Lv20qXhE

Did anyone find yet a video in proper quality (e.g. not recorded with a camera off the tv screen) with the full BB segment, including those two other bands, announcement, etc?  How about the interviews?

Yeah....the first link but gone within the hour! >:(

None of the records sound that way, number one.

All the original members have quite diminished voices, number two. Al is closest but has less high end and sustain.

Dave never sang on the records, number three.

Put those things together with the fact you have no reliable falsetto singer, no second mid-level voice where Carl used to be, and you simply can't rely on these guys alone to get it done in the live setting -- especially when the hit records inflated their sound by two it three times.

Mike is so fucking creepy this is awesome, lol.  When you watch Mike sing lead, you want to go take a shower afterwards, it's like he just fondled me or something. 

You could take the best singers in the world and it would be really hard to do a really 'great' version of Good Vibrations live.  The song is so recognizable, anything less than an exact copy is going to fall flat. 

BTW, best 'version' of it I've heard, compared to the original, is the version on BWPS.  Brian really nailed it.  To these ears, it sounds almost as great as the original. 

Just took a look. Great and fantastic to note this comment in one article:


Sonically, yeah, although we’ll confess to having our doubts about how “live” those trademark vocals really were.

Every note sounded magnificent

As Mr. Bob Dylan once said:
"Well, they are f*cking good, you know"

I think it was definately live, because I've heard Brian's band do it over and over again, but I think most casual fans won't realize that a lot of it is backing vocals.  The leads are the hard part! 

Care to point out where Nicky & Mikie are to me ?

I think they did a fair mix with the band, Brian obviously has comforts to consider, so letting him have a few more 'familiars' around is probably a good idea. 


My personal opinion: Mike is thrilled, much, much, much more than he'll ever admit until the day he dies, to be working with his cousin again.  He's probably somewhere having sweet dreams right now after sharing the stage with Brian tonight. 

You can even see it in his body language.  He even puts his hand on Brian's shoulder in some of the pictures, and things.  Mike's over the moon about this.  I think he feels like Brian's home, at least for the time being, and even though Brian on stage isn't the centerpoint, Brian's very much the centerpoint of the band as he's always been.  I'll bet Mike feels like weight's been lifted off his shoulders that he doesn't have to continue to be a sub-par, 'psuedo' Beach Boys anymore, this is the real deal again. 

Really cool that Al and David are along for the ride too, all is right in the world. 

Will we get a 2012 version of Brian's Back now?  ;D

So i missed 2  ::) There are so many musicians on the stage  ;D

Sorry AGD  :)

Thanks for the links  - that performance was f*ckin' great and a triumphant return for the Beach Boys.  Bring on the Tour  :-D

Now I'm off to eat up the blow by blow commentary, thanks again

spare link:

http://www.gossipcop.com/beach-boys-reunion-grammys-video-maroon-5-foster-the-people-grammy-awards/

Thanks!!
Finally the full clips and in better quality.

BTW, was that Greg from the Bird & the Bee playing organ with Foster the People?

Sorry if this one's already up, the links are flying thick and fast -  some backstage jive from the official site - http://www.grammy.com/videos/the-beach-boys-one-on-one-backstage (http://www.grammy.com/videos/the-beach-boys-one-on-one-backstage)

Cool that they showed Glenn Campbell early in GV. Man the guys did a great job and it looked like they really brought the house down. The singing was live of course. There were some notes that they certainly wouldn't have left in if they'd pre-record. Brian's mic was not loud enough (or his singing) so Jeff Foskett made sure that the leads were top and he did a splendid job.
I also like how close the guys were together. They were a group not one member at that side, one member at this side and the other one on his own at another point. Guys, this was really a great way to start the reunion celebration and imo every Beach Boy looked happy. I agree that Mike really seems to be thrilled to have Brian back. And Brian seems not to unhappy either....
I never heard the "bap bap"s sound so much like the record. This all really felt like the Beach Boys

That's not how it happened.

Sweet moment when Mike and Glen Campbell exchange acknowledgments near the beginning.

Very nice ! Can't wait for that mellow album.
Mike seemed to have forgotten that Brian also won a Grammy. Good ol' Bruce made sure it got mentioned.





Yes, he probably was doubling him anyway, but normally he only doubles on the high parts in Brian's cocnerts, doesn't he ? You can hear Brian singing a deeper voice on those parts but only very low. I guess his mic really was just not loud enough

Best quality yet:

http://929nin.com/maroon-5-foster-the-people-and-the-beach-boys-grammy-performance/ (http://929nin.com/maroon-5-foster-the-people-and-the-beach-boys-grammy-performance/)

How do you like this ?

(http://www.news.at/articles/1207/img/318945_e.jpg?1329118810)

they all look very unnatural except for David.

Waistcoat and trilby also sends Dave straight to the top of 'Best Dressed Beach Boy', unlike Bruce's poor show of a leather jacket in true midlife crisis style and everyone else rocking very questionable shirts, or in Al's case a weird faux velvet jacket.

Seems EVERYONE had to wear a jacket last night… those boy bands that preceded the man band had to cover their striped shirts, which rather seemed to defeat the object…   Who's in charge of the dress code?

The Beach Boys :rock

hm, well they were playing in a tent, in the winter... maybe it was quite cold.

Didn't you see the show?  They weren't playing in a tent.  They were playing in the Staples Center.  The only acts in the tent were the Foo Fighters, and the techno-electronic thing with deadmau5.

oh I thought it was just a really big tent. I didn't see the Foo Fighters set to compare how tent-like each performance backdrop was.

Can´t help but being soooooo excited by this! They dress well here.

THIS IS AWESOME!  :pirate

 :lol  :lol  :lol

so true.

Well well well - as someone who was dreading how the BBS would sound -I was pretty encouraged by this - still think the band makes it but if this is a yardstick to judge how the tour will be I will be delighted

mentioned this on another thread. i hope the new recording let's them be who they are now, and that they don't use the studio to trick up false vocals and so on to sound as if it is still 1966. i like the fact that in that backstage clip brian mentioned mellow vocals, etc. As someone who seems to be aging myself, I love how old they are, and letting that show--musically, vocally, lyrically--would be a real treat. Again, i'm reminded of mccartney's new disk where he finally sounds his age...lovely

I'm surprised when Brian was asked whether or not he follows modern bands that he didn't answer "OLDIES ONLY".  :lol

(I guess he kind of did when he said he followed Paul McCartney)

I was scared that he was going to say Phil Spector. :lol

You can really hear Al in the background vocals.

I like the "Mellow Vocals" too, Brian sounds fantastic on the disney album with his mellow vocals. 

Colors of the Wind
Can You Feel The Love Tonight

etc. are beautifully sung. 

You really can! He stands out on the ooh bap bap parts, you can even pick out Brian on those parts clearly in the descending chorus at the end. Those middle harmonies haven't sounded like that for years, it was nice to hear it more raspy!

Loved Brian's red Chuck Taylor's, visible at the start of the Grammy Live backstage insterview clip.  Noticed Dave sporting a Gibson cap on the red carpet

I'm interested in the new album, like everyone else. But as for the tour, well, it's just kind of lame to see the guys up there and most of the vocals being done by the backing band. It's basically like they're one stage just to wave and smile while a tribute band does their songs (and similar to how I feel when watching any of the Bruce/Mike band videos from recent concerts). Yawn.

Ever been to a Mike and Bruce show, these days they put on a great show that was fun to go to.

I got this from Facebook. It says that it was taken at the press conference. Anyone have a video or a script from that interview?

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I'm sorry, that statement is kinda dumb. You have five guys, one of whom never even sang on the classic records, all of whom have seen the quality of their voices deteriorate markedly in the last couple of decades. The music is based on an interplay of falsetto, high middle voices, and bass. Mike can still do the latter, but you simply don't have the number or quality of voices in the remaining guys to do justice to the music.

I know, I know, there will be some joker who says "I just want to hear them do it now, even if it's off-key and croaky." Well, maybe you do. But in a giant global tour, people will want to hear that classic blend. And these guys can't do it without some assistance.

There is, perhaps, a more balanced statement to be made. That is, what would these five sound like with maybe two more voices -- Jeff at the top, let's say, and Darian or Scott in the middle harmonies -- and leaving it at that. I think that would be nice to hear.

Another video of the gig but the Durex commercial beforehand his worth watching!!! :o



http://www.longislandpress.com/2012/02/13/beach-boys-reunion-video/

http://www.grammy.com/videos/the-beach-boys-one-on-one-backstage

May be this one.

Note. If Brian wants a change in career he would make a good bank robber. Onstage or interviews he is the master of the quick get-a-way! ;D

Right. I've seen and forgot about it. Thanks !


Another one:

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Mike looks great in that shot with Glen

Much lols. Quote of the decade.  ;D

I think you are wrong. Mike will sing his part. Bruce will sing his part. Alan will sing his. Brian will sing Carl's. Jeff will sing Brian's. The other guys will double when needed. They will smile and wave, I'm sure. And I know I'll wave back as I smile my ass off through the reunion concert at Jazz Fest.

Or Jeff will sing Carl's part, if it's a lead.

I'm actually wondering who'll sing Carl's rockier/bluesier parts - songs  like Sail On Sailor or Darlin'. There are plenty of people in the backing band who could do a decent job - Darian, Scott B and John can all do those songs - but I'm wondering if they'll end up going to Al...

How about John Cowsill??? Does a fantastic Darlin and I Can Hear Music or Darian maybe, also does a fantastic Darlin.'
I'm wondering if Al and Brian will trade verses on Sloop , You're So Good to Me, Heroes etc.

Additionally, I don't think it's that they are incapable of singing alone, but why should they?  They're all pushing 70, getting together again against all odds, actually going on a full tour ... we're lucky to be seeing them out there at all.  Let them entertain the crowds.  Yeh, it would be cool to see something like an intimate set with JUST the core members, but that's really expecting a lot at this point.

This is nothing new.  Shows as far back as the early '70s featured more backing musicians than Beach Boys.  I mean, there were plenty of shows with just Al, Mike, Carl and hired musicians.

I think what you mean to say is "I miss Carl Wilson".

Well its been 24 hours and a few thoughts.

Great sound. Not my ideal as mentioned but should appeal to prospective concert goers.
Looked great! Could have been a parody of themselves with bright Hawaiian shirts and shorts but dark clothes rock!
Bruce sans hat. Three wearing them would have been too many.
David fits like a glove.
The various bands (Brians, Mike and Bruce) plus Al and David clicked.

Umm, no thanks -- Cowsill is energetic on these songs, but he sings them in a manner that is nothing at all like Carl Wilson performed them. (This is not a knock on John -- he does quite well, but his approach is just too different stylistically, imho.)

Darian does a very nice version of "Darlin'," much closer in feel to Carl's. I've also seen Matt Jardine do serious justice to both "Darlin'" and "I Can Hear Music," but there's not been any indication he'll be on the tour.

I LOVE IT!! It's so good to see them all together.

(http://www.news.at/articles/1207/img/318945_e.jpg?1329118810)

Brian looks like he got 'goosed' by David. ;D

They look great in this picture. Brian looks genuinely happy. The performance initially left me disappointed, but seeing it a second time, I thought is was about as good as one could expect. What I really look forward to is the new recordings. The "Do It Again" remake had the old magic, and I feel like they can still create that in the studio, and I hope whatever "new" songs of Brian's they do will have that magic as well. If that happens, it will be a successful 50th celebration for me.

Jimmy Kimmel jokes about the BB (but at least they get mentioned):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq-7pOfM4_4&feature=youtu.be&t=1m52s

Christ, Kimmel's sh*t isn't he?

 :)
However I believe he was imitating Leno and his lame jokes in that particular clip.
Now, Leno is indeed sh*t.

I'm pretty sure that lead vocals to each song will be handled between the Beach Boys. Brian did "Darlin'" in his early days of solo touring (don't know when he stopped) and also sang "Sail on sailor" many times. I haven't heard him doing it, but I could imagine David could do nice jobs on both songs.
Only exception might be "Don't worry baby" which probably will be sung by Jeffrey Foskett although I wouldn't have any problem if Brian would sing it in a lower voice. It doesn't have to be in falsetto.



BTW is it me or do I actually hear some women screaming at the Beach Boys' appearance ? During the introduction and the performance itself ?
Anyway, it's nice to hear a huge applause when Brian appeared on the screen during the verse

At 1:02:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMT7kyqFuO8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMT7kyqFuO8)

Oh, Mike  ;D

If you'd like to see more of how the stage looked and the light show, click here for an audience recorded movie of the performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPs5r2mcoEM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPs5r2mcoEM)

And you  can hear Brian loud and clear on that!

Holy sh*t, Brian was out of it.

Looks totally normal to me. Don't know what you're talking about

Yeah, that's Brian being able to tune out because Mike will do all the talking. Nothing unusual there.

I was pleased to hear (through that audience-recorded video on YouTube) that the Grammy audience was treated to Brian's lead vocal even if the TV mix took him out altogether - he sounded good too.

I think I just found the youtube vid you are talking about. He was singing lower than Foskett but sounded great. In fact, the whole thing sounded 100 times better from that crappy phone than what I heard on the mix through the TV. Love hearing Mike's bass bellow through the Staples Center.

Bill O'Reilly salutes The Beach Boys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SEZTJDFvpc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SEZTJDFvpc)

HOLY sh*t!  Brian sounded great!  What the hell?  This recording is about 4 times better than the other.  I'll bet everybody in the crowd was thinking "good lord these guys rock!".  Mike sounds absolutely fantastic too. 

Oh, haha, I found it searching on youtube before I saw your post. Thanks a bunch for the link. They sounded awesome.

Thanks for posting that. I think Brian sounded really good.

Whoever was running the broadcast sound at the Grammy's needs to be reevaluated for mixing Brian out. He sounded great from the audience footage.

You're very welcome !  ;)

Brian is Back! :thumbsup

Good to hear Brian's actual singing, I agree he sounds very fine and presentable!

Thanks for that.  I was mostly pleased with what I saw on TV, but this is so much better.  It rocks harder and you can definitely hear Brian here, who sounds quite good, and actually better than some of his recent performances of the song, where he seems a bit disinterested. 

Definitely a keeper... 

One question is still open to me though: where was the cello ? and who played it ?

I wondered that myself, could possibly be Scott or Darian on the keys with a cello sound? If you listen to the middle section "I don't know where..." it looks and sounds like Brian is playing the main piano part there!

I thought the same thing. But the cello sounds too good imo 

Fascinating. Brian isn't mixed out of the live mix at all. In fact, he's the dominant voice!

I'm sure the folks mixing for TV were instructed to fade him out at first, but he really hit it spot on.

Man, that's beautiful. Who could have imagined hearing Good Vibrations with an awesome lead vocal from Brian Wilson immediately followed by Mike Love sounding just like the record in 2012. They both stepped it up here big time.

Can't lie, I'm gettin' emotional over here. This, to me, is as big as if McCartney had sung with Lennon again before he passed. Thanks for posting this version.

Sidenote, I thought that the audience cheering when Brian started singing might've been faked. Glad to see it was legit.

Brian sounds so good!!! this is a must see for all the doubters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPs5r2mcoEM
This is blowing me away it sounds so,so good!!

This is so much better than the broadcast version! I am even more excited for the tour now!  :)

Brian sounded great! I want this in the new Live album!

I think they started cheering because it sounded remarkably like the original song.  So it's kind of like "OH sh*t" we're in the presence of greatness.  

Yeah, it's really pretty amazingly good.  Also I'm struck, AGAIN, at just how great of a song it is.  When the falsetto kicks in over Mike, it just sounds amazing, then it comes back and sounds even better.  Such a well written, creative song. 

I tell you this: after seeing that clip I shamefully take back whatever I said and thought about Brian's singing and presence. He sounds beautifully, nails his vocal and completely restores my expectations for his performances on the tour. He's singing great, period.

 Perhaps he'll sing much more comfortably and relaxed on a BB setting than solo. And the mix was much better live, it seems, so it is likely that -as sometimes- TV mixes, and this was a very comoplex one, are unfair to the live act.

Well said!

I can't tell from the video, but it appears that the reason they crowd cheered at such a strange place was because that was when they flashed Brian on the television screens... it must have been something else to see that it was actually HIM singing that!  The crowd's half full of musicians, many of them are probably well aware of who's who. 

Great point Ron!! The more I watch this, the more I can't believe how good it is!!
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I'm so over the moon about this!  I think it's because of the corner we had worked ourselves into. 

First, it was "Oh, i hope this is good, it may not be.  I wonder how Brian is?"

then we see it on t.v., and it's "Oh! That was good! Shame about Brian though, but I guess that's all we expect from him in this stage of his career, he must have been so frightened"

then today after seeing this cell-phone video, it's

"OH sh*t.... not only was he not afraid of the crowd, he completely OWNED the performance and sang it with beauty my voice will never have in it, because he's BRIAN FUCKING WILSON!!!!"


Haha.  Such a great video, great time to be a fan right now, guys!

I just love how the crowd/peers, cheer and scream when they hear Brian...Shivers down my spine.
And from all reports they were all rushed out there and it all happened so quickly.

What it comes down to is, they're pros!  Brian's played that song 10,000 times Mike played that song 10,000 times at Hotels all around the USA just in the last year.

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My English class did some sort of study on scene changes for modern film and television, and like you said, it's ridiculous.  It has everything to do with the general public's attention span.

That is a point, maybe AGD or someone can help us out?

I noticed all the cuts too, I guess that's how they do it these days.  If it sells records, good for them!

Probably comes more down to, the editors only know how to do it that way. 

Brian sounds phenomenal...and confident. I think he might have been wanting a reunion a lot more than he ever let on. And there's something that many are overlooking...HE IS PLAYING THE PIANO AND IT IS AUDIBLE (here's a hint...it's playing in unison with the organ-sounding keys). You also hear him say "right" right at around 1:52. It's him, Al, and Dave singing the "Good Vibrations bop bop" which was actually louder on the tv mix. The shouted "Exci-" part right before the bridge is Brian as well.

I'm suddenly extremely excited for this reunion more than ever.

I'm thinking that's Al. But yes, agreed, this is exciting!

The "good vibrations bop bop...."'s sound exactly like the record thanks to Al's still fantastic sounding voice

Here's another audience filmed video. You can see the boys taking the stage 8sort of...).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWLXh6ie8sI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWLXh6ie8sI)

Sounded like a sample to me.

The audience recordings are so good!!

The Beach Boys must be on a Fantastic high right now.! Jeez what a band .!